Dry Run, Ohio
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45663. It stands on Wolf Run. The Survey maps it on the West Portsmouth quadrangle.
Then and now
1915 to 1991The same ground, surveyed 76 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Topographic sheets covering this place
13 sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1915 USGS Otway quadrangle1:62500
- 1915 USGS Otway quadrangle1:62500
- 1917 USGS Otway quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS West Portsmouth quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS West Portsmouth quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS West Portsmouth quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS West Portsmouth quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
7,533 words on this townshipA History of Scioto County, Ohio,, published 1903 names this settlement in its chapter on Washington Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Sub-district No. 1 is known as the Dry Run school. The first building erected here was about 1839 on a lot purchased of Joseph Williamson. This lot was exchanged for a new one and a two-roomed building was constructed on it in 1890. There are two teachers with salaries of $45 and $40 per month respectively. Enrollment 75.
Passage source: A History of Scioto County, Ohio,, published 1903.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Washington Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Fires near this place
71 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Dry Run between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,174 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 33 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 28 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | PORTSMOUTH |
| 20 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 57 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | ROSEMOUNT |
| 23 August 2002 | Natural | 60 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | TAYLOR LUMBER |
| 5 July 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 28 June 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | CHURCH STR |
| 2 June 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | 180 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 7 May 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 8166 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected near this place
12 of 1,407 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 1,407 specimens collected within 10 miles of Dry Run between 1884 and 1975: 1,262 Animalia, 74 Plantae, 62 Fungi, 5 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded, 2 Chromista. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by ?, A. Braun, A.P. Morgan and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.
| Image | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Pyganodon grandis (Say, 1829) | 1884 | H. Mores | Scioto River |
![]() | Bovistella Morgan | 1885 | A.P. Morgan | Preston |
![]() | Cylindrocladium scoparium Morgan | 1893 | A.P. Morgan | Preston |
![]() | Campeloma Rafinesque, 1819 | 1885 | Ch. R. Orcutt | Scioto River |
![]() | Harpographium fasciculatum (Sacc.) Sacc. | 1887 | A.P. Morgan | Preston |
![]() | Puccinia recondita Roberge ex Desm. | 1889 | Craig M. | Franklin Co. "hayden's Falls" on Scioto River |
![]() | Lycogala epidendrum (L.) Fr., 1829 | 1896 | not recorded | Scioto River |
| unnamed | 1897 | Morgan | Preston | |
![]() | Albugo candida (Pers. ex J.F.Gmel.) Roussel | 1897 | F.L. Stevens | Alum Rock |
![]() | Ambystoma opacum (Gravenhorst, 1807) | 1897 | Hine, J. S. (James Stewart) | Portsmouth, Scioto Co., Ohio |
![]() | Peronospora polygoni Halst. | 1897 | F.L. Stevens | |
![]() | Sialia sialis (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1897 | Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick) | South Webster, Scioto, Ohio, USA |
All 1,407 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Dry Run: 3 past producers, 2 producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Flagstone, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portsmouth Works | Clay | Plant | ||
| Taylor Stone Quarry | Flagstone | Past Producer | ||
| Waller Brothers Stone Company | Flagstone | Producer | ||
| Own Crews Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Taylor Stone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Waller Brothers Stone Quarries | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | Sedimentary |
Storms near this place
4 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dry Run in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dry Run | $12,000 | Multiple trees were knocked down onto a home and utility lines were knocked down along Dry Run Road. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dry Run | $3,000 | Several trees were downed. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dry Run | $500 | A tree was downed along Dry Run Road. |
| July 2012 | Hail | Dry Run | - | no account filed |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valley View | 0.8 miles | 13 | |
| Coles Park | 1.0 miles | 13 | |
| West Portsmouth | 1.3 miles | 13 | |
| Vera Junction | 2.3 miles | 12 | |
| Stockham | 2.3 miles | 14 | |
| Rosemount | 2.7 miles | 12 | |
| Portsmouth | 3.6 miles | 15 | |
| Shannoah Town (historical) | 3.7 miles | 14 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Dry Run | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q23698470 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1061024. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.























